Definition

to end, i.e. complete, execute, conclude, discharge (a debt)

Etymology

from G5056 (τέλος);

Where the KJV renders it

• accomplish
• make an end
• expire
• fill up
• finish
• go over
• pay
• perform

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.